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https://www.newsweek.com/panic-on-us-aircraft-carrier-island-after-us-venezuela-strikes-report-10975598
Tension is rapidly growing in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago after a U.S. newspaper reported that the U.S. was poised to strike military targets in Venezuela, as the U.S. military buildup in the region continues.
The Miami Herald wrote on Friday that the Trump administration had decided to attack military installations inside Venezuela, information it said it obtained from sources with knowledge of the situation.
According to these same sources, the strikes, which they claimed would be the latest escalation in the president’s campaign against the Soles drug cartel, could “come at any moment”—whether that is a matter of days or even hours.
However, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly denied the Miami Herald’s story.
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump has recently increased pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro to curb the flow of drugs from the country into the U.S. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. military has conducted a number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea which the Trump administration said it suspected of smuggling narcotics, killing more than 60 people.
Maduro has accused Trump of trying to topple his government and seeking a regime change in Venezuela, which in recent years has suffered an economic collapse and is still in the midst of a socioeconomic and political crisis.
Trump, on the other hand, has accused Maduro of being the leader of a drug-trafficking organization—an accusation that the Venezuelan leader has repeatedly denied.
Tension is rapidly growing in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago after a U.S. newspaper reported that the U.S. was poised to strike military targets in Venezuela, as the U.S. military buildup in the region continues.
The Miami Herald wrote on Friday that the Trump administration had decided to attack military installations inside Venezuela, information it said it obtained from sources with knowledge of the situation.
According to these same sources, the strikes, which they claimed would be the latest escalation in the president’s campaign against the Soles drug cartel, could “come at any moment”—whether that is a matter of days or even hours.
However, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has flatly denied the Miami Herald’s story.
Why It Matters
President Donald Trump has recently increased pressure on Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro to curb the flow of drugs from the country into the U.S. Over the past several weeks, the U.S. military has conducted a number of strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea which the Trump administration said it suspected of smuggling narcotics, killing more than 60 people.
Maduro has accused Trump of trying to topple his government and seeking a regime change in Venezuela, which in recent years has suffered an economic collapse and is still in the midst of a socioeconomic and political crisis.
Trump, on the other hand, has accused Maduro of being the leader of a drug-trafficking organization—an accusation that the Venezuelan leader has repeatedly denied.
